Fellow Travelers. How Road Stories Shaped the Idea of the Americas, Paperback - John Ochoa

Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the fron...

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This work traces the yearning for contact not only through philosophy and literature but also by exploring the cultural reception of communication ...

Reducere. One of Newman's best and most accessible books, The Idea of a University stands among the central texts of the Oxford Movement and remains a crucia...

Reducere. Lives of fifteen Saints from North America, Central America, and South America, illustrated in full color.

Reducere. Long before Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, long before the Vikings discovered the New World, the indigenous cultures of the America...

Reducere. "The Idea of a University is an] eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all Newman's] books and certainly th...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A beautiful presentation of this Marian Feast. Illustrated in full color.

PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of the Americas challenges the standard narratives of "achievement" to think about how Latinx students can experience a...

Reducere. Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand sold...

DescriptionIn 1890, the United States government outlawed the Ghost Dance. The ceremony remained illegal until 1978. Why? Did the authorities fear ...

The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civiliza...

This book consists of two parts: "The Law of Peoples, " a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993, and the ess...

DescriptionAncient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective--the baffli...

Particular attention was paid to the theory of political marketing, with conceptual definitions developed to better facilitate communication betwee...

Reducere. Rife with misadventures, brushes with death, and moments of existential insight, The End of the World Notwithstanding is a hilarious yet reflective...

La Merica (la mer'.e.ca) Ancient Portuguese name for America. Meaning: "The Western Star" This book is made possible by the re-discovery of an anci...

Reducere. Art of the Non-Western World: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas gives students the tools to better understand and appreciate the arts in a gl...

DescriptionIn Postcolonial Grief Jinah Kim explores the relationship of mourning to transpacific subjectivities, aesthetics, and decolonial politic...

Description"Superb... A tour de force."--Ebrahim Moosa"Provocative... Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A collection of fictional biographies of right-wing writers, Roberto Bolano's Nazi Literature in the Americas presents an alternative world of 20th...

Reducere. African slavery in the Americas has left indelible marks on thegeographical, political, economic, social and cultural landscapes of theAmericas. An...

Publisher: Belcouver PressNumber of pages: 424Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): William Be...

In 2008, Mark Beaumont smashed the world record for cycling around the world, by an astonishing 81 days.

An examination of how Pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/w and colourNumber o...

DescriptionA rigorous case for the primacy of mind in nature, from philosophy to neuroscience, psychology and physics. The Idea of the World offers...

The concept of the avant garde is highly contested, whether one consigns it to history or claims it for present-day or future uses. The first volum...

Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea ...

Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to t...

Buckle up and get ready to hit the road for 50 of the Americas' greatest drives. Ranging in duration from a few hours to a week or more, each route...

This edited collection brings together an impressive and international array of coaching supervisors to highlight the unique cultural and contextua...

In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts and sources that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge a...

The Idea of Spatial Form contains the classic essay that introduced the concept of "spatial form" into literary discussion in 1945, and has since b...

Reducere. --Updated 2018--A part of living the RV lifestyle is learning how to maintain your recreational vehicle and it is also part of the fun. Understandi...

Reducere. Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Exami...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sonya (University of Roehampton, UK) NevinIllustration(s): 11 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Publicatio...

Tom is a boy from England who dreams of being an adventurer. Everyone tells him he's crazy, so he decides to prove them wrong by going around the w...

A collection of stories from nations and cultures across our two continents--the Sea-Ringed World, as the Aztecs called it--from the Andes all the ...

Handbook of Comparative Educational Law: Selected European from Africa and the Americas, Volume 4 provides detailed analysis of education law in Br...

Reducere. This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular 1991 booklet that changed the way "the discovery of America" is taught in classroom and communi...